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http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknots-clown-on-the-origins-of-maggots.html#commentsWed, 12 Oct 2011 13:00:13 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=25145With the release of our new Slipknot special collector’s issue, we’re celebrating Slipknot month on RevolverMag.com, unleashing new interviews, photos, favorite Slipknot song picks from a host of celeb columnists, and much more. So check back right here often. In the issue, we talk to Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan about the passing of bassist Paul Gray and the band’s future. In this exclusive outtake from our interview, Crahan speaks about the “culture” of Slipknot and why he named their fans “Maggots.”

“We are not a band. And I don’t give a fuck what anyone thinks–they can hate Clown all they want–but what separates us from the dumb shit is that we’re a culture and everybody knows it. We’re not just a band, we’re a fucking culture–I know this. We have so many fans that I can’t even tell you because I would be incorrect. And we are one in the same, we are equal, we are together forever. And that’s how you share, is you invite them in.

“So they and us are equal. And they are beautiful, and, without them, I am nothing as a presenter of my art. I can create my art and will create my art as an individual–I can do it in my basement, I can be euphoric. I don’t need…I don’t need people congratulating me or giving me awareness to enjoy what I create, however, because I am the same as them: We share in the same love for what we do. So they deserve everything, they deserve all I have, the best I have, at all times. I am unable to lie or trick. These have never been any issues in my views of what I’m trying to do with our fans.

“And that’s why I dubbed them many years ago, I came up with the, you know, ‘Maggot’ term, and it’s because I used to study maggots, and a lot of people don’t understand, the reason why I named our fans maggots is because if you’ve ever watched maggots eat, they’re absolutely beautiful in all senses of creation. No. 1, they feed off of something–OK, it’s a frenzy, it’s an absolute frenzy. They’re going absolutely ape shit. Their only goal is to feed off of something and it happens to be death. You could say ‘Hey, that’s an animal.’ Well, it’s a dead animal. Or it’s a big pile of shit. Any way you look at it, it’s death, you know. It’s like the worst thing ever and they feed off it. How beautiful is that? So I thought, you know, This is what I want our fans to be. We’re unique, we’re different than any band ever created. So, just like maggots, we’re the only things that deal with death. I mean, there’s other bugs and shit, but the prominent thing are maggots. And the biggest reason why I wanted to call them Maggots was because, do you know what happens to a maggot?

“They turn into a fly.

“They turn into a fly. Now why do I want them to be flies? I’ll tell you why: Because we all grow old and we all grow wiser and we all do not necessarily need what we’ve needed to get by. But we will remember always what it was that helped us turn into what we are. And in the early days, we have always spoken to a very young crowd, an adolescent crowd, who’s having a hard time with life because of society, trying to find their social place in life. They’re a little bit different, they’re in school, they might get teased a little bit because they’re unique and they want to dress like they want to dress. This world’s full of divorce and, you know, bad jobs, bad employers, you know, mean people. And Slipknot represents all these outcasts, and they’re not outcasts in reality, they’re actually very unique and beautiful people that are willing to stand up for what they believe in without catering to the pressures that the world likes to put on them.

“So I have known that if you started with Slipknot when you were 14, by the time you were 24, there was a good chance that you might be married, have kids, have a career, and maybe no longer need heavy music to help you through your angst. However, those kids still, still, come to our shows, because we are such a part of their life that we are a necessity. And they might not even really be into heavy music overall, but they still come and share the experience with us, just like a fly does. A fly, a maggot earns wings through its sacrifice and devours death, achieves wings, flies off to wherever it wants to, then it searches for the death and lays eggs and starts the process all over.

“That’s why our fans are maggots, you know? We are the shit of the world, you know? And I wouldn’t want top be anywhere else. I don’t want to be a crown, I don’t want to be a block of gold. I want to be a big pile of shit–that you’d have to be concerned with when you step in it. I wanna ruin your ideals, your philosophies, you know? I want you to smell me 10 feet before you’re on me. I want you not to be able to look upon me. I want you to gag when you inhale my art. I want you to be affected by my presence, and I want you to swat at our children because they’re in your face and they’re landing on you and you can’t catch them, you are not wiser than them, they are annoying because they will spread, you know, the good word, the ‘Knotian way. So we’re a culture, man. And we had to share our inner feelings with them because they feel like we do, and I will not deny them of that. I will not deny them of how they feel. I will invite them into the house and they will get the same closure that I need. They will.”

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknots-clown-on-the-origins-of-maggots.html/feed2Interview Outtake: Slipknot Drummer Joey Jordison on the Band’s Creative Processhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-the-bands-creative-process.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-the-bands-creative-process.html#commentsMon, 10 Oct 2011 13:00:07 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=25052With the release of our new Slipknot special collector’s issue, we’re celebrating Slipknot month on RevolverMag.com, unleashing new interviews, photos, favorite Slipknot song picks from a host of celeb columnists, and much more. So check back right here often. In the issue, we talk to Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison about the passing of bassist Paul Gray and the band’s future. In this exclusive outtake from our interview, Jordison speaks about Slipknot’s songwriting process.

“If you really look at our stuff, every record is different. The first one is what it was, Iowa got darker and heavier and more disturbing, Vol. 3 still is heavy but then we start putting in some really odd stuff like ‘Prelude 3.0,’ ‘Circle,’ ‘The Virus of Life,’ you know, started to expand our sound. And then with All Hope is Gone, you know, that record…I mean, you listen to a song like ‘All Hope is Gone,’ nothing but double bass and thrash beats and just super heavy riffs, and then you’ve got ‘Snuff,’ you know. And then you’ve got ‘Gematria,’ like one of the best Slipknot songs we’ve ever played. And a funny story about that song is, like, the guitar players and Paul would be in rehearsals–we played ‘All Hope is Gone’ a couple of times, and that’s one of my favorite Slipknot songs, and ‘Gematria,’ we’re definitely gonna probably play those once we go out on a proper tour off the next record—but those guys would get in such heated arguments about how the riffs go, because they’re so technical. So I’m like, ‘All right, wait till the next time so you guys can all sit down and figure it out.’

“You know, a song will start with just a stem of drums and guitar. And then we’ll demo it: I’ll record the drums, we’ll get the guitars on, then we’ll put the bass on it, and that will be the template of the song. Corey will write his lyrics, or I might have some lyrics as well, or Shawn might have some lyrics, and, you know, then we get the lyrics on. Then we get that done and then we start, you know, adding the percussion, that goes next. And we get that, us three drummers all work like in a triangle on that, and you get everything where it needs to be. And then Sid comes in with his quirkiness and you never know what that guy’s gonna come up with–he’s an alien. And then Craig–we call him the serial killer, he doesn’t talk–he comes in last with layers of, you know, noise and whatever that we need to make the song even more disturbing. So that’s how it works.”

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-the-bands-creative-process.html/feed0Interview Outtake: Slipknot’s Clown on Playing with Original Guitarist Donnie Steele Againhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-percussionist-clown-on-playing-with-original-guitarist-donnie-steele-again.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-percussionist-clown-on-playing-with-original-guitarist-donnie-steele-again.html#commentsTue, 27 Sep 2011 14:00:23 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=23319With the release of our new Slipknot special collector’s issue, we’re celebrating Slipknot month on RevolverMag.com, unleashing new interviews, photos, favorite Slipknot song picks from a host of celeb columnists, and much more. So check back right here often. In the issue, we talk to Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan about the passing of bassist Paul Gray and the band’s future. In this exclusive outtake from our interview, Crahan speaks about playing again with original Slipknot guitarist Donnie Steele, who filled in on bass for Gray during the band’s “Memorial World Tour” this summer and at Rock in Rio this past weekend.

“No. 1, Donnie coming back felt completely comfortable for us. It wasn’t even a thought. It just fell into place. We’re not gonna have some jackass from another band come into our world. That’s just bullshit. I won’t allow it. Donnie’s family. Donnie’s from the stone of the ’Knot. He’s knitted right in. He wins an award, because we’d be in Turkey, and I’d be outside the hotel at 4:30 in the morning, having a big, fat Cuban cigar, and here comes Donnie. I’m like, ‘What the hell are you doing?’ He’s like, ‘I’m just walking out, taking it all in. I went to this church. I saw this place. I took pictures, and it’s just so beautiful.’ And I’m just like, ‘Wow.’ And the next day, we’d be in Russia. And we’d get there at about 5, have a big stogie, and here comes Donnie. And I’m like, ‘What in the fuck is up with you, man?’ And he’s just taking it all in. beautiful person. Had a blast with him.

“I grew close to Donnie. We shared a lot of great times. It was a pleasure having him back. It was like yesterday. We talked about all the stories from yesterday. He remembers everything like it was yesterday. He remembers it all. He remembers when I first wanted to wear a mask. He remembers all that shit. It was just cool to hang out with him and have him go, ‘Yeah, I remember when you pulled out your clown mask and was talking about it, that you wanted to do this.’ It was like, ‘Wow. Not only are you a blast from the past but you fit perfectly.’ And that’s the ’Knot-ian way, man. That’s who we are. Everything is for a reason. It’s not contrived. It’s not too thought-out, because it doesn’t need to be. It just needs to be real. When it’s real, someone like me…I’ve been told from my peers that one of my largest gifts is I know how to commit. I don’t need to spend a lot of time debating who, what, where, when, why. If it feels right, right from the get-go, let’s do it.

“The last thing I wanted was some jackass from another band kicking my fuckin’ door in thinking he needs to belong to something because of the caliber of what we were. This is a fucking dream that God fulfilled.”

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-percussionist-clown-on-playing-with-original-guitarist-donnie-steele-again.html/feed0Interview Outtake: Slipknot Drummer Joey Jordison on First Learning of Paul Gray’s Deathhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-first-learning-of-paul-grays-death.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-first-learning-of-paul-grays-death.html#commentsMon, 26 Sep 2011 13:00:41 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=23314With the release of our new Slipknot special collector’s issue, we’re celebrating Slipknot month on RevolverMag.com, unleashing new interviews, photos, favorite Slipknot song picks from a host of celeb columnists, and much more. So check back right here often. In the issue, we talk to Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison about the passing of bassist Paul Gray and the band’s future. In this exclusive outtake from our interview, Jordison speaks about how he first found out about Gray’s death and how he reacted to the tragic news.

“I was on a plane [futureusgalleryback home to Iowa], and I landed, and my phone had, like, 80 messages on it. And my phone rang and it was my manager, Cory [futureusgalleryBrennan], and he told me, and, man, I went berserk. I kind of went into shock. I was like, ‘Why are you telling me this now?!’ Cory is like, ‘I’m telling you this, Joey… Calm down…” I’m sitting next to this girl, this girl is freaking out, and I’m, like, thinking of going to jail because I’m starting to flip. Well, I smashed my phone, like, on the plane in front of everybody and, like, they do have police kind of coming after me. I’m like, ‘Why are you telling me this?!’ He’s like, ‘Well, because once you get off that tarmac, people will be saying, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry.’” Because here [futureusgalleryin Iowa] we’re almost bigger than our governor…well, actually we probably are. So, yeah, it was pretty crazy. I lost my best friend, you know. We lost a musical soulmate.”

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-first-learning-of-paul-grays-death.html/feed1Interview Outtake: Slipknot Percussionist Clown on the Paul Gray Effigy Onstage this Summerhttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-percussionist-shawn-clown-crahan-on-the-paul-gray-effigy-onstage-this-summer.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-percussionist-shawn-clown-crahan-on-the-paul-gray-effigy-onstage-this-summer.html#commentsThu, 22 Sep 2011 15:00:00 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=22804With the release of our new Slipknot special collector’s issue, we’re celebrating Slipknot month on RevolverMag.com, unleashing new interviews, photos, favorite Slipknot song picks from a host of celeb columnists, and much more. So check back right here often. In the issue, we talk to Slipknot percussionist Shawn “Clown” Crahan about the passing of bassist Paul Gray and the band’s future. In this exclusive outtake from our interview, Crahan speaks about the effigy of Paul Gray that the band had onstage with them during their comeback shows this summer. The effigy featured Gray’s original “Pig” mask, coveralls, and bass guitar. You can see it in our Slipknot “Memorial World Tour” gallery here.

“I had to have something of Paul there besides a memory. Besides a thought. I wanted something obtainable for the kids. Instead of all of us thinking in our minds the same thing, and pretty much trying to admit to yourself, Yeah, I bet they’re thinking this and we’re thinking this. Let’s put a factor. Let’s put some symbolism on the thought. Let’s go the extra step.

“I know Paul’s younger brother, Tony. He’s a very close friend of mine. He has worked for Slipknot. He’s been around since the beginning, when I owned my bar. I got the bar to help get the band signed, and we got signed out of that bar. He helped me run it. He was my partner. His brother, Paul, had given him his original Pig mask, and he also gave Tony his original bass. And both of those things are very significant things in Paul’s life, especially if you knew him. 1) His first mask. Who he was from the beginning. So that relic was obtainable. And the same with his bass. Anyone who jammed with Paul or knew him from the old days, he had this one particular bass, and it was in all the bands that he had jammed with until we got to the area where we could get more basses. [futureusgalleryBefore then] he had one particular bass, and it really represented him.

“Then, spiritually, all good ideas come together if they’re true. And one of my mentors, his name is Stefan Seskis, he took the very first two album covers of Slipknot’s albums. The self-titled one and Iowa. He’s, like, my mentor in photography, and I used to take him out on the road with us to take pictures and to help teach me to get into my world of photography. Well, we went to an employee Christmas party. He works for a gentleman who is married to a woman who is my wife’s boss. And both companies, her company and his company, throw a Christmas party. So we all went to this Christmas party and we all know each other, and Stefan grabbed me. He goes, ‘Hey, I’ve got to talk to you in private.’ He said, ‘I was cleaning my house when I moved and I found a bag and I opened up the bag and there were a couple pair of coveralls in this bag. And one of them is Paul’s.’ And I said, ‘Are they red?’ And he said, ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘I can’t fucking believe it.’ I was asking the appropriate parties if they had any awareness of these red coveralls, meaning the actual original red coveralls that were on the [futureusgalleryself-titled album] cover. And nobody really knew if they were around. And sure enough, probably what happened was Shawn Economaki, who plays [futureusgallerybass] in Stone Sour, he worked for the band. He’s, like, the longest living employee of Slipknot. He used to live with Stefan, and he must have helped Paul and someone else in an interview or something, but somehow he had this bag and probably had to pick it up or get it together or bring it home. And it just sat there for whatever reason. And Stefan found it and was like, ‘Man, I have to give it to you, Clown. I know you’ll do what’s right.’ I was like, ‘You’re not gonna believe this, man. I want to take out Paul’s mask and his bass [futureusgallerywith us on tour], and I can’t believe you have the coveralls!’

“So I had this stand made, and the mask went to the top, the coveralls draped over it, and the bass went on the side. And it was a very eerie, almost scary image that will be burned, imprinted into many people’s lives for years to come. And I say ‘eerie’ because he was there but he wasn’t there, and that’s what brought up the idea of, ‘Where is he? He’s here but he’s not here.’ And it was beautiful, in the sense of what Slipknot creates. It was absolutely perfect.”

http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-percussionist-shawn-clown-crahan-on-the-paul-gray-effigy-onstage-this-summer.html/feed0Interview Outtake: Slipknot Drummer Joey Jordison on Original Guitarist and Fill-In Bassist Donnie Steelehttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-original-guitarist%e2%80%94and-stand-in-bassist%e2%80%94donnie-steele.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-original-guitarist%e2%80%94and-stand-in-bassist%e2%80%94donnie-steele.html#commentsWed, 21 Sep 2011 15:00:28 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=22795With the release of our new Slipknot special collector’s issue, we’re celebrating Slipknot month on RevolverMag.com, unleashing new interviews, photos, favorite Slipknot song picks from a host of celeb columnists, and much more. So check back right here often. In the issue, we talk to Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison about the passing of bassist Paul Gray and the band’s future. In this exclusive outtake from our interview, Jordison speaks about original Slipknot guitarist Donnie Steele, who stepped in on bass during the band’s comeback shows this summer. In particular, Jordison looks back to Steele’s departure from the group in 1996 due to conflicts with his Christian beliefs at the time, and why he was willing to return.

“I don’t like to speak for Donnie, but I will tell you that [futureusgalleryin 1996] we were pretty out there, you know. We were into pretty much watching the most underground, gross, shocking shit—I didn’t know that he was really involved with religion at this time—you can hear it at the end of the bonus track on the self-titled album. It’s chopped up so you don’t really know what we’re watching, like a defecation German video and, like, we’re laughing, Chris is puking. And we just watched this shit for entertainment, it was funny to us, you know, a bunch of fucked-up… I can keep going on but I don’t want to paint too weird of a picture. But pretty dark stuff and we didn’t know [futureusgalleryabout his religion], you know. And a couple of times Donnie just wouldn’t come to practice. So we all hop in my Suburban, drive over to his house, and his car was in the driveway. We knock on the door, he wouldn’t come out. Then we find out.

“The guy that was engineering Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. record was also that way. We basically made him have a seizure [futureusgalleryfrom everything we were watching]. You know, he came in one day and he went in and he was laying on the floor sweating and then he left. And, like, all we wanted to do is create this disturbing, quirky, fucked-up music, just freak people out and fight everybody. That was our thing. I mean, that’s what we did: Every time we walked into a bar, like, when a local band that we don’t like was playing, like, it’s almost like a record would scratch. As soon as we walk in, you know, and just quiet, we’d walk right up into the front, push everyone out of the way, right into the front and stare at the band where they couldn’t even play their instruments anymore. Then we would wait for them outside.

“Anyways, Donnie, he’s a real mellow dude, he couldn’t take it at the time. Since that time–this is a long time ago–he’s not like that anymore. He had real short hair at the time–his hair is, like, almost down to his ass now–he’s completely different. So that [futureusgalleryreligion] stuff betrayed him, you know what I mean? And it just takes people a while to kind of find out who they really are. Sometimes it takes a long time, man. I’m still finding out: I mean, life is a beautiful thing and it’s a fun thing but it’s definitely got its twist and turns and, man, it can throw you a curveball like a mother fucker at anytime, so…especially being in Slipknot, man, it’s like a puzzle you cannot finish. It’s like, we’ll know when the last piece is put in and we can finally put it to rest, but we’re not there yet.”

]]>http://www.revolvermag.com/news/interview-outtake-slipknot-drummer-joey-jordison-on-original-guitarist%e2%80%94and-stand-in-bassist%e2%80%94donnie-steele.html/feed3Interview Outtake: Slipknot Vocalist Corey Taylor Shares Vinnie Paul’s Advice After Paul Gray’s Passinghttp://www.revolvermag.com/news/slipknot-vocalist-corey-taylor-shares-vinnie-paul-advice-after-paul-grays-passing.html
http://www.revolvermag.com/news/slipknot-vocalist-corey-taylor-shares-vinnie-paul-advice-after-paul-grays-passing.html#commentsTue, 20 Sep 2011 15:00:01 +0000http://www.revolvermag.com/?p=22733With the release of our new Slipknot special collector’s issue, we’re celebrating Slipknot month on RevolverMag.com, unleashing new interviews, photos, favorite Slipknot song picks from a host of celeb columnists, and much more. So check back right here often. In the issue, we talk to Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor about the passing of bassist Paul Gray and the band’s future. In this exclusive outtake from our interview, Taylor shares the words of wisdom he received from Vinnie Paul, of Pantera and Hellyeah fame, who, of course, lost his own bandmate, and brother, Dimebag Darrell to tragedy.

“You know, it’s crazy: The first gig that we played with Stone Sour [futureusgalleryafter Paul's death] was one of the Rock am Ring, Rock im Park festivals. And the first people I saw were the guys in Alice in Chains and the guys from Hellyeah and then later on James Hetfield went out of his way to come and check on me. And it was crazy, you know, like, you don’t really sit down and think about, not only the fact that you’ve lost someone, but just how many people have in this business. I mean, it’s kind of crazy. Just the fact that they went out of their way to see how I was doing and see how the band was doing, not only let me know how much respect they had for Paul, but for the band as a whole, you know. And in a weird way, it felt good to know that, you know, Pauly left his mark, Pauly left his legacy. He helped create music that touched so many people,whether they were fans or other bands.

“The thing that they let me know is that it never really goes away: There’s always a hole basically. It may get better but it never really goes away. The best advice I got was from Vinnie. And he basically told me—and this is a guy who not only lost his band mate, but he lost his brother, his true brother—he let me know, he’s like, “Man, the thing you’ve gotta remember is you’re living for two. You’re living for two now ’cause his spirit is never gone.” He’s like, “So everything you do, every experience, every victory, you know, you’re winning for two, you’re living for two, you’re laughing for two. That’s forever.” And that…it made it a little easier for me. It let me enjoy things. It let me love again, basically, let’s put it that way. And I keep Paul with me every day, you know. And I can’t tell you how much I appreciate Vinnie sharing that with me ’cause, I mean, I knew Vinnie and Dime, both, you know. They were at our first show in Dallas. We got to hang out with them–they were the first dudes that really went out of their way to embrace Slipknot, as far as, like, other bands go. And it was great, it felt really good to know that Vinnie was sharing something with me like that.”